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Mark Zuckerberg immigration group’s status: Looking for footing

Zuckerberg reportedly aims to raise $50 million for the group. | AP Photo

A spokesperson for Andreessen declined comment. A spokesperson for Gates did not immediately return a request for comment.

The prospectus does, however, lay clear a roster of founding members that serves as a who’s who of Silicon Valley. And it reveals a plan of how to push a political message that would benefit the technology elite to the masses who consume their product.

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The prospectus makes clear the technology CEOs plan to parlay their roles in Silicon Valley to boost the group’s political agenda. Twice the prospectus states that the executives can control what messages its targeted audience will see.

“We have the ability to build a database of interested parties who will post to their distribution channels when issue campaigns arise,” the prospectus states. Then, in a segment that is underlined for emphasis, “We control the avenues of distribution.”

Pincus has pledged to give the Zuckerberg group money but is not a board member or founder, according to a person familiar with his involvement.

Details about the group are emerging as the Senate is set to return from its Easter recess with a comprehensive immigration reform package still being negotiated.

Last weekend, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO signed off on a visa program for future low-skilled workers, a key hurdle in the eight-way bipartisan Senate talks.

Signed on to be the Zuckerberg group’s campaign manager is Rob Jesmer, a former executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Serving as political advisers are two Bush White House veterans: Dan Senor, who also served as Paul Ryan’s chief adviser during his vice presidential run, and Facebook executive Joel Kaplan.

The prospectus describes the group as a unique entity in the immigration fight. Listed among qualities that “we uniquely bring to this fight,” the prospectus says the Zuckerberg’s group is the “only well-funded bipartisan pro-reform group.”

“We have assembled the best people and most funding on this issue, and will win by focusing our activity in the districts of key members of Congress and senators,” the prospectus reads.

The group would seem to be a competitor for both attention and credit with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s immigration group, Partnership for a New American Economy. And in fact some of the executives listed as part of the new Human Capital project are also involved in the Bloomberg operation.

Green is co-chair of the March for Innovation, a Partnership for a New American Economy production. Conway and Graham are also listed as supporters.